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London County Council 1912

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Annual Report of the London County Council, 1912.
Infantile
mortality in
large English
towns.

The following table enables comparison to be made of the infantile mortality in London and other large English towns.

Town.1907-11.1912.Town.1907-11.1912.
London114a91aBradford13099
Greater London10886Hull135101
Liverpool145125Newcastle-on-Tyne127101
Manchester143121Nottingham150117
Birmingham144112Stoke-on-Trent170128
Sheffield134106Portsmouth11082
Leeds136101Salford142128
Bristol111103Leicester129110
West Ham125104

London had therefore in the period 1907-11 a lower infantile mortality than any of these towns
except Bristol and Portsmouth. In 1912 the London rate was below that of all except Portsmouth.
It should, however, be pointed out that the comparative rates given in the above table, which
shows the deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 births, are not fully corrected for births
in institutions except with regard to the rates for the Administrative County of London, as shown in
heavier type. The figures, therefore, are not strictly comparable, but afford a rough method of approximating
the relationship of the several infantile mortality rates in the instances given.
Deaths and
death rates
of infants
in London
boroughs.

The following table shows the deaths of infants under one year of age and the number of these deaths per 1,000 births in each of the sanitary districts of the County of London for the period 1907-11 and for the year 1912 (a):—

Metropolitan borough.Deaths under one year of age, 1912 (52 weeks).Deaths under one year of age per 1,000 births.
1907-11.1912.
Paddington29610798
Kensington30312091
Hammersmith25912090
Fulham39611694
Chelsea8410968
Westminster, City of1979784
St. Marylebone20910393
Hampstead797062
St. Pancras47210688
Islington71210887
Stoke Newington748772
Hackney42110980
Holborn7211380
Finsbury294134114
London, City of159881
Shoreditch439149123
Bethnal Green37513496
Stepney897125105
Poplar541130107
Southwark587130105
Bermondsey431137111
Lambeth60111086
Battersea35810984
Wandsworth5139776
Camberwell53510483
Deptford25911989
Greenwich20111184
Lewisham2368770
Woolwich2009473
London10,05611491

It will be seen from the foregoing table that in the period 1907-11 and in the year 1912 Shore"
ditch (149 and 123 respectively) had the highest infantile death-rates and Hampstead (70 and 62
respectively) had the lowest. The deaths under one year of age per 1,000 births, during each of the
four quarters of the year, were approximately as follows:—First quarter 96; second quarter 83;
third quarter 81; fourth quarter 105.
(a) See footnotes (b) and (c), page 4.